Now we all know, Boli's on DRUGS,,, ROFL.
optionman31601:
I think you could save yourself a ton of money on this build, maybe half the amount of your posted pick list. I wanted to offer my opinion of these components, nothing more, you can take what you want and leave the rest so to speak. I believe the i7-2700k is over the top for the needs of most traders but then again why not. If you're going to game and play with this box then by all means get the 2700k. That said, if you do intend to game on this box then look carefully at the MB and video cards you choose, if you're after the ultimate gaming experience. If you really want to drive a Ferrari most of the time and trade with the Ferrari stuck in first gear for six hours a day that's your choice and it's surly possible. I believe the most important factor of a trading computer is reliability, overclocking and gaming at night or on weekends may jeopardize the system when it's time to trade. I'm just saying,,, (this might generate some lively discussion).
Your List:
1. As you said, you could save money here. Keep in mind it's very easy to add cooling fans. You can add a front fan to cool the SSD and or HDD. If you decide on passively cooled video cards (and your case is vented in this area) drilling a few holes in the side of the case to mount a fan here is a simple task. The main thing to consider when it comes to adding fans is the amount/availability/location of the fan pin headers on the MotherBoard, some boards have 3 or 4 some don't, so the length of the wire on the fan needs to be another thought.
2. This power supply is massive, but if your intentions are to OC/crossfire and game this box ALL NIGHT and trade with it in the morning then, have at it. Take a look at the NEEDED connections for your build and the power draw of the components, this will dictate the size of PSU you need.
3. This should create a shit storm of controversy, but I'm not sold on the Asus boards. As far as I can tell they don't offer a 1155/Z68 MB with 2-PCIe slots running in X16 mode simultaneously. The GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 does (I think this was leapUP's MB choice). I'm going to stop here on this issue of X16/X8 and X4 mode. One more point on the ASUS P8Z68-V PRO I don't like is the Integrated Graphics, if I'm going to add my own video cards why buy a MB with an Integrated GPU that draws current when ever the computer is on?
4. Why not, we all want one (or two
).5. In a trading computer 8GB is fine, Windows will always nibble away at our RAM.
6. Nice, great price too.
7. This is indeed a very nice SSD, you could probably get buy with a smaller one and add a spinner for data storage. FYI, I have a 64GB SSD on my trading box and use about half of it.
8. On my trading box I use my Burner alot. I copy my charts/trades to disk and take them home for study and review. I can send or post them from the disk, from a different computer.
9. I made the move from XP to W7-Pro and I'm still learning my way around with help from a few forums.
10. I have a old sound system from an old IBM computer hooked to my trading box with a couple bookshelf speakers. They still sound great after all these years and my trading apps do have several audio alerts that fire off a few times a day. But I wonder why you'd buy 4 (or more) monitors with "built in speakers," price wise you might do better getting monitors with out speakers. Recently I bought 4 23" LED back lit monitors, the problem I had was I couldn't find LED monitors with the VESA mounting pattern integrated into the back, I worked around the issue of course, but it was an issue.
11. Video Cards, your build seems like a gamer that trades, that's fine. I believe you can build a very reliable and extremely fast computer with many of the parts you've chosen. But for a trading rig you could lower your costs quite a bit. If you like to game, finding that middle ground isn't that challenging. But a gaming computer with an i7-2700k and four monitors must be an awesome thing. I've been wondering if LeapUP has been successful in keeping his kids away from his resent build, I bet NOT.
